That’s not to say this isn’t a powerful beast, it is the most powerful machine on the market with 4, 6, 8 or 12 core Xeon processors and turbo boost speeds of up to 3.9 GHz.

In fact, no music software or sample library can really take advantage of the Mac Pros additional power. It’s still very early days but Logic Pro and every other DAW still has yet to be optimized to take advantage of OpenCL or OpenGL – the additional graphical GPU power of these machines. So now that is has been available for a few months how does it stack up as the centerpiece for your music studio?

It may look like a cross between a rubbish bin and R2D2 but the new Mac Pro put an end to the excruciatingly long wait from Apple for an update to their aging ‘Pro’ line.